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1999 Fleetwood Bounder Diesel Owner Complaints

Reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers, shown in full

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Complaints on fileComplaints are reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers. NHTSA does not verify most reports before publishing them, and a complaint does not establish that a defect exists. Volume is influenced by how many of a vehicle were sold, how long it has been on the road, and how much attention an issue has received.
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Latest Jun 28, 2003
Crash or fire reportedComplaints whose submitter recorded that a crash or a fire occurred. These are the reporter's own answers on the NHTSA form, not verified findings.
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Filed in the last 12 monthsReports filed with NHTSA in the trailing 365 days. Recent volume reflects attention and vehicle age as much as anything else.
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Reports on file since Jun 28, 2003

What this page shows

Our database holds 1 NHTSA owner-reported complaint for the 1999 Fleetwood Bounder Diesel. Each one is a report filed by an owner or driver and published by NHTSA without most of them being verified. A complaint is not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. Narratives are shown exactly as filed.

Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.

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Body & structure
Filed Jun 28, 2003

A VERTICAL PLUMBING LINE WAS INSTALLED INCORRECTLY AT THE FACTORY. THIS LINE TOUCHES THE SIDE OF A HOLE THAT WAS CUT IN THE FLOORING. THE HOLE WAS CUT LARGE ENOUGH FOR THE LINE TO PASS THROUGH WITHOUT TOUCHING, SO THAT NORMAL ROAD VIBRATIONS WOULD NOT CAUSE CHAFING, BUT THE FACTORY DID NOT INSURE THAT THE LINE WENT THROUGH THE CENTER OF THE HOLE. THE PLASTIC PLUMBING LINE WAS ALSO DEFECTIVE, AND BEGAN TO LEAK AT A POINT ABOVE THE HOLE. BECAUSE THE LINE WAS INSTALLED INCORRECTLY, AND TOUCHED THE SIDE OF THE HOLE, THE WATER LEAKING FROM THE DEFECTIVE PLASTIC DID NOT DRAIN HARMLESSLY OUTSIDE. THE WATER TRANSFERRED FROM THE PIPE TO THE FLOORING AND SOAKED THE SUB FLOORING. BECAUSE THERE IS LINOLEUM COVERING THE SUB FLOORING, THE LEAK WAS NOT DETECTABLE FOR OVER THREE YEARS. DURING THIS TIME, THE SUB FLOORING CONTINUED TO SOAK UP WATER UNTIL OVER 200 SQUARE FEET OF SUB FLOORING WAS WET. THE SUB FRAME AND FASTENERS CORRODED, AND THE SUB FLOORING WAS DESTROYED. THE POSSIBILITY OF ELECTROCUTION, STRUCTURAL FAILURE AND FIRE WERE PRESENT, AND ALL THE TIME, THIS SITUATION WAS DEVELOPING UNDETECTABLE. THE AMOUNT OF DAMAGE HAS EXCEEDED $30,000.00. FLEETWOOD HAS REFUSED TO ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR MANUFACTURING DEFECT. I HAVE NO CHOICE LEFT BUT TO SUE THEM. *NLM

NHTSA ID
10023932
Incident
May 25, 1999

Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.

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